December 10, 2021 - Midwest Roadside Safety Facility researchers conducted a rare-but-successful crash test Dec. 8 to assess a newly designed and significantly shorter concrete barrier's performance when it is contacted at 50 mph by an 80,000-pound tractor-tanker truck.
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December 07, 2021 - Researchers from the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF) will conduct a rare tractor-tanker vehicle crash on Wednesday, Dec. 8, to test how a newly designed and significantly shorter concrete roadside barrier performs in a vehicle crash.
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November 29, 2021 - Taking lessons learned from animals who work in groups in the sky, on the ground and underwater, a team of Nebraska engineers is creating algorithms that can help individual agents in emerging technologies work together to improve our lives.
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November 11, 2021 - A team of Nebraska engineers are developing a process of using picosecond-long laser pulses to modify the surface of copper and thereby increasing heat transfer capabilities for power generation, refrigeration, and air conditioning.
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November 08, 2021 - Through an NSF grant, Eric Markvicka, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is developing new processes for manufacturing rubber that will improve the capabilities of controlling its electrical, thermal and mechanical properties.
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November 03, 2021 - Engineering faculty Ron Faller and Eric Markvicka, graduate student Jackson Stansell and the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility were among the award recipients on Nov. 1 at the 2021 NUtech Ventures Innovator Celebration, part of Nebraska Research Days.
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November 02, 2021 - Lisong Xu and Hamid Bagheri are using a $750,000 NSF grant to develop a tool that will address one of the most significant drivers of network congestion: buggy congestion control algorithms, which to internet freeze or interrupted video streaming.
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October 27, 2021 - A team of researchers from Civil and Environmental Engineering was chosen to receive the PCI Journal's George D. Nasser Award for their paper, "Flexural Design of Precast, Prestressed Ultra-High-Performance Concrete Members."
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October 27, 2021 - University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers have been awarded $5 million by the Department of Defense Army Corps of Engineers for research to extend the lifespan of bridges through new monitoring technology.
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October 20, 2021 - Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers Wei Qiao and Mark Bauer are supporting a new $25 million contract between the University of Nebraska's National Strategic Research Institute and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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